A taste of the future

From left, Evan Hood and Rigo Santiago-Lopez, Kinston High School seniors, learn about water filtration from the Woodmen Community Center assistant director Earl Keith during the school’s job shadow day Thursday.

Zach Frailey / The Free Press

By By Juwan Fulton and Rasier Ravenell / Special to The Free Press

Published: Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 06:26 PM.

Students from Kinston High School had a chance to experience possible future careers during Job Shadow Day on Thursday.

At the Woodmen Community Center, seniors Rigo Santiago-Lopez and Evan Hood learned about the facility, its budget and time management of activities. Both students said they enjoyed the experience and that they picked the Woodmen because of their interest in sports.

Santiago-Lopez said he’s participated in previous job shadowing days. He’s witnessed childbirth and he also worked in a lab and learned about different disease. He said he wanted to try something different for his senior year.

Evan Hood, also a senior, shadowed at DuPont last year. He was also a lifeguard over the summer for the Woodmen Center, so he is familiar with the facility.

Students from Kinston High School had a chance to experience possible future careers during Job Shadow Day on Thursday.

At the Woodmen Community Center, seniors Rigo Santiago-Lopez and Evan Hood learned about the facility, its budget and time management of activities. Both students said they enjoyed the experience and that they picked the Woodmen because of their interest in sports.

Santiago-Lopez said he’s participated in previous job shadowing days. He’s witnessed childbirth and he also worked in a lab and learned about different disease. He said he wanted to try something different for his senior year.

Evan Hood, also a senior, shadowed at DuPont last year. He was also a lifeguard over the summer for the Woodmen Center, so he is familiar with the facility.

At New Vision Christian Counseling, students got a better view of what it’s like to be a psychologist. Under the experienced eye of Martha Cobbs L.P.C, students looked into a psycologist’s world.

“The experience of knowing that there is someone interested in this field, and that I can make a deposit that influences them is great,” said Cobb when describing her reason for allowing the students to shadow her.

Seniors Ciera Myers and Rebecca Boyette said their ability to shadow Cobbs gave them a greater insight of the daily life of a psycologist. They said this experience with a real pyscologist has helped them better understand what they aspire to be in the near future.

Myers said she loved the experience because as a future clinical psycologist she has been given a great opportunity to get a feel for her career.